[Posted Anonymously] sorry, boys be boys

[thepurpleone]

[The footage is grainy, purposely put through a filter to (badly) mimic the quality of a VHS playback. There's random snippets. B-footage if you will, featuring Stu and Billy just going about random places, pieced together as bad cuts.

"People would kill to have access to some actual entertainment," Billy's voice plays over the visuals, Stu's giggles layered in the background.

"Yeah, that's why I'd do it -- Quick, get a knife!"  comes Stu's eager exclamation.

There's a canned scream as the footage flickers out from an unnecessary zoom-in of Stu's face and goes to an abrupt black screen.

"Careful --you might get hurt in here," Billy's voice echoes warningly.

There's a shot of the smoldering remains of the building in the Green quadrant. For added insult it is inexplicably filmed narrow with two black bars framing the space that isn't a playback.

"Do you like -- Stupid -- movies?"

Stu's words round things off, a very obvious cut and paste edit job on the dialogue for how different 'stupid' sounds from the rest.

The video ends with a staticky screen.]

Comments

[anon]

[thepurpleone]

You've missed the point entirely I see.

[work_wife]

Oh no, I get the point. I'm saying you're not doing good at conveying it. All forms of visual media have language to them, even attack ads.

But seriously, this is creepy. Like, one of these guys saved my life.

[thepurpleone]

The whole point is that it's supposed to be a mockery of a bad movie.

Also, those two are liars and dangerous.

[work_wife]

Again, saved my life. Just about carried me to the hospital.

[thepurpleone]

And you don't think that's convenient that he just happened to find you there?

[work_wife]

I

[Her finger slips and sends the message before she can stop it, but that probably works. Because she's thinking over here. It had been late at night. Finally she does have a response.]

He was hurt when the attacker got away. He helped me. If he was the attacker he wouldn't have stopped.

[thepurpleone]

That doesn't answer the question.

Did you hurt the attacker any before you were found?

[work_wife]

No. I tried but no.

[thepurpleone]

Did he say why he was over there when your supposed savior found you?

[work_wife]

I don't remember. A lot of that night is fuzzy.

[thepurpleone]

Convenient. For him.

He's one of two people that are responsible for trying to burn several people alive in a building.

[work_wife]

Wait, what? The fire was deliberate!?

[thepurpleone]

Unfortunately. The intended victims were baited inside with calls for help broadcasted from a tablet. The interior of the building was doused in that red juice as an accelerant.

[work_wife]

That's horrible!

[thepurpleone]

Indeed. Which is why I can't help but be annoyed that you're standing up for him, but that's not really your fault. He's played me too. Everyone, really.

[work_wife]

You really believe it's like that. That... he did this?

[thepurpleone]

I don't just believe it. I know for a fact.

Also, his buddy tried to get me shot, right in front of my face, so there's that.

[work_wife]

Okay, yeah, that's shady.

[thepurpleone]

"Shady" doesn't begin to cover it.

Here. It seems like everyone wants irrefutable proof around here and is willing to be ignorant about warnings otherwise.

[He sends a few screenshots of Billy and Stu at the ship diner stocking up on juice, and then over by the building that had gotten burned down.]

[work_wife]

Oh shit. That's... Shit.

[Locked]

[thepurpleone]

Sorry.

This isn't the way I wanted to touch base with you again. And I know I should have come and seen you sooner.

I'm going to make this right.

would that i could surprised pikachu face

[work_wife]

Donnie!?

lol

[thepurpleone]

Hi Robin.

[work_wife]

This was you?

[thepurpleone]

Yes. It was. Because I'm tired of nothing happening and no one believing us, but I don't care if anyone thinks this is an attempt to frame someone. I've already turned in the real evidence. This is just for those two movie-obsessed dumb-dumbs.